Methodist Peace Prize
The Methodist Peace Award (English: World Methodist Peace Award ) is the highest honor that Methodist and Wesleyan churches award worldwide.
He is since 1977 annually by the Methodist World Council Churches awarded (World Methodist Council) to individuals and organizations that contribute through courage, creativity and consistency exceptionally to reconciliation and peace.
Award winners
- 1977: Saidie Patterson , Northern Ireland
- 1978: Anwar Sadat , Egypt
- 1980: Abel Hendricks , South Africa
- 1981: Donald Soper , Great Britain
- 1983: Kenneth Mew , Zimbabwe
- 1984: Tai-Young Lee , Korea
- 1985: Jimmy Carter , USA
- 1986: Sir Alan Walker, First Director of Evangelism for the World Council of Methodist Churches, and Lady Winifred Walker
- 1987: Woodrow B. Seals, judge and peace activist, and Bert Bissell
- 1988: Gordon Wilson , Northern Ireland
- 1990: Mikhail Gorbachev , USSR
- 1991: Bärbel Bohley , Germany
- 1992: Zdravko Beslov, Superintendent of the Methodist Church in Bulgaria
- 1994: Bishop Elias Chacour , Palestine
- 1996: Mmutlanyane Stanley Mogoba , South Africa
- 1997: Community of Sant'Egidio , Italy
- 1998: Kofi Annan , Ghana
- 1999: Madres de Plaza de Mayo , Argentina
- 2000: Nelson Mandela , South Africa
- 2001: Evangelist Joseph Rice Hale, USA
- 2002: Boris Trajkowski , Macedonia
- 2003: Casimira Rodríguez , fighter for domestic workers' rights in Latin America, former Minister of Justice of Bolivia
- 2004: Millard Fuller, founder of Habitat for Humanity International , USA
- 2005: Bishop Lawi Imathiu , Kenya
- 2006: Sunday Mbang
- 2007: Harold Good
- 2008: Nun Sister Helen Prejean , death penalty campaigner and prison chaplain, USA
- 2009: Jeannine Brabon
- 2010:?
- 2011: Rosalind Colwill
- 2012: Joy Balazo, Philippines
literature
- Linda Greene: World Methodist Council. Handbook of Information 2002-2006. Biltmore Press, Asheville (NC) 2002
Web links
- World Methodist Peace Award (Engl.)
- '2008 Peace Award Booklet' (PDF 624 kB / engl.)